Former Blizzard Employee AMA on Reddit - Page 10

On June 07 2013 23:29 _Search_ wrote:


I really don't understand why this is so surprising. Everything I've seen from Kim/Browder speaks of unquestionable arrogance.

On June 07 2013 23:29 _Search_ wrote:


I really don't understand why this is so surprising. Everything I've seen from Kim/Browder speaks of unquestionable arrogance.

On June 07 2013 23:08 Judicator wrote:


Because most people with critical reading skills would pass it off as pretty much biased noise after reading it, then you got people who are nodding their heads in agreement after each passing sentence and puts this AMA as some kind of definitive justification for their own dissatisfaction.

On June 08 2013 00:20 KingAce wrote:
If there weren't clear problems with SC2, WOW and D3 you could say she was just bitter. But that isn't the case now is it?

I mean when she's says the guys at Blizzard thought Dota was a joke, so they didn't jump on the idea...opening the door for valve, hon and LoL, you can't really call that being bitter.

On June 08 2013 00:27 AnomalySC2 wrote:


Whether they said Dota was a joke or not, I bet they are smacking themselves for not jumping on that lol. You also have too look at just how untouchable Blizzard was up until the past few years, it wouldn't surprise me if there are some arrogant devs at Blizzard, but it's not like it wasn't justified or anything.

On June 08 2013 00:31 Roe wrote:


That was justified several years ago with SC:BW, WC3, D2, and the earlier days of WoW.

On June 08 2013 00:20 KingAce wrote:
If there weren't clear problems with SC2, WOW and D3 you could say she was just bitter. But that isn't the case now is it?

I mean when she's says the guys at Blizzard thought Dota was a joke, so they didn't jump on the idea...opening the door for valve, hon and LoL, you can't really call that being bitter.

On June 08 2013 01:01 AnomalySC2 wrote:
That's true but at the same time, Dota did have a giant playerbase even as a simple mod for Warcraft 3.....Surely they could have seen the draw to it, and surely they could have predicted there would be some developers out there that would take that formula and run away with success.

But your point is valid, the rapid evolution (or trends) the internet has brought about, that is pretty hard to predict. Specifically the gaming industry is in an extremely volatile state right now, and there is a massive saturation of me-too! devs that are flooding each genre with their own clones, which really diminishes the value of the originals. I guess I'm thinking of WoW when I say that. There are an insane amount of WoW clones that have gone free to play, and I imagine it has hurt the enthusiasm people once had for MMOs.

On June 08 2013 01:17 Plansix wrote:


And the massive failure of those MMOs to capture the audience of WoW is the reason we don't see tons of LoL clones. There are a few that are out their, but most of them have fallen flat, with the exception of Dota 2. The fact of the matter is that companies are likely to fail chasing the success of others. Blizzard has watched EA and every other major publisher in the world fail in amazing ways while chasing the success of WoW. There is no reason for them to do the same with LoL.

And Blizzard is working on Blizzard all-stars, which I bet is going to be linked into the spawning feature they just released, the desktop battle.net and Hearthstone. I can see a lot of cross over with people coming for one and then getting pulled into the other games. But the whole idea that Blizzard is going to flip the F2P button on SC2 is just silly. I just isn't that simple or even proven that it would be a good idea.